My Lives.
New York: Random House, (1971),
First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (332)pp. Random House, Item #32554
"He is perhaps best known for his universally admired Nonesuch Press and for his influence on book design in general. But in this book we get the whole man: childhood and youth in a literary family - his mother was the poet Alice Meynell; conscientioous objector in World War I - he made the longest kknown hunger-and-thirst strike; fiery journalist in the teens and twenties of the century; amateur of intrigue with the pre-Stalin Bolsheviks; official rationaing advisor in World War II..." Illustrated. Soiling to jacket, book fine.
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